DUCTILE
ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile
(adjective) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; “ductile copper”; “malleable metals such as gold”; “they soaked the leather to made it pliable”; “pliant molten glass”; “made of highly tensile steel alloy”
ductile, malleable
(adjective) easily influenced
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
ductile (comparative more ductile, superlative most ductile)
Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
Molded easily into a new form.
(rare) Led easily; prone to follow.
Synonyms
• (molded easily): flexible, plastic, pliant; see also moldable
• (led easily): tractable
Antonyms
• (capable of being pulled into thin wire): brittle
Coordinate terms
• malleable
Anagrams
• dulcite
Source: Wiktionary
Duc"tile, a. Etym: [L. ductilis, fr. ducere to lead: cf. F. ductile.
See Duct.]
1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion,
or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison.
Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips.
2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.
Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all metals. Dryden.
– Duc"tile*ly, adv.
– Duc"tile*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition